"Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences."

-- Richard Ford

#Cutting Quotes #Two Quotes #People Quotes

“The other thing is going to be me being able to show not just the American people or the Israeli people but the world that, in fact, we have mechanisms in place that will prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon.”
“I started out, coming out of college, I had my Realtor's license, and I did real estate full time for a number of years.”
“If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve.”
“I get so into playing the bass. The only time I ever feel the same way is when I'm having sex; it's the epitome of unifying with something.”
“It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.”
“I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.”
“I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.”
“[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.”

Source : Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.783, Best Books on

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